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In low thickets, Georgia to Alabama. Spring. 



Leucothoe platyphylla differs from L. axillaris in its broader 

 leaf-blades, orbicular larger sepals, smaller corollas and larger cap- 

 sules. 



The specimens on. which the species is founded were collected 

 by the writer near the Ochlockonee River about Thomasville, 

 Georgia, in May and June, 1895. Type in the herbarium of Co- 

 lumbia University. 



Hypericum splendens 



An erect much branched shrub 0.5-1.5 meters tall, with 2- 

 edged glaucous twigs. Leaves firm, numerous ; blades oblong, 

 1.5—2.5 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, slightly revolute, 

 glaucous, especially beneath, narrowed at the sessile base : buds 

 conic : flowers very showy, several or many in terminal or axillary 

 cymes : sepals unequal, oblong, firm, apiculate, the outer about 8 

 mm. long, the inner 5 mm. long : corollas 3.5-4 cm. broad : 

 petals golden, cuneate, oblique, 1.5-2 cm. long: stamens very 

 numerous, orange-colored: styles 3, slender: capsules often 

 crowded, conic, 1.5 cm. high, acuminate at the apex, partially 3- 

 celled, about thrice as long as the sepals with 3 narrow wings and 

 6 obtuse angles: seeds cylindric, 1.3 mm. long, longitudinally 

 ribbed and transversely wrinkled, resembling ears of corn. 



On granite slopes, Stone Mountain, Georgia. Summer. 



This is perhaps the most showy North American Hypericum 

 and is related to H. aureum from which it differs in the smaller 

 firmer leaves, the more distinctly pedicelled flowers and the conic 

 buds. 



The original specimens were collected by the writer on Stone 

 Mountain, Georgia, in July and August, 1893, and August 6, 

 1895. Type in the herbarium of Columbia University. 



2. THE GENUS P.TELEA IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES 



PTELEA L. 



The genus Ptelca differs from Helietta, its only close relative in 

 North America, in its pubescent filaments, and in the fruit which 

 is winged all around and does not separate into distinct carpels. 



Key to tlie Species 



Parts of the flower usually in 5's : leaflets relatively small. 



Filaments slightly pubescent at the middle : petals glabrous within : Floridian. 



1. P. Baldwinii. 



